Ron: Come on Dave, Gods servants are all imperfect and when they make mistakes they admit it.
LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
painting an empty apartment knock at the door
ron the elder doing not-at-homes.
comments on: well how you doing dave?
Ron: Come on Dave, Gods servants are all imperfect and when they make mistakes they admit it.
LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
come on, we've been talking about canadians so much lately that my ears are freezing up.. what i want to know is, what do you think of us brits?.
do you think that we are cute and cuddly for example?.
or have we all got stiff upper lips?.
I love English people so much I married one. I feel more at home in England than I do in my own country (US).
.... at google fight .
http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=apostates&q2=jehovah%27s+witnesses&b1=make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us.
apostates.
Star Wars (2 740 000 results ) | versus | Star Trek
(2 090 000 results) |
The winner is: Star Wars
War (48 000 000 results ) | versus | Peace
(15 500 000 results) |
The winner is: War
No surprise there. And the winner of the Duh Award is:
Sex (126 000 000 results ) | versus | Abstinence
( 384 000 results) |
The winner is: Sex
this elder didn't abuse me physically or sexually.
he never intended to cause me any harm.
he really felt that he ever "knowingly" did anything to harm me!.
Wow...that must have been hard for you to type. I know the feeling regarding the abuse. (((((AA))))) The elder was WAAAAAYYYYY off-base. I can't say too much more in the confines of polite conversation. This one hits home hard for me.
hope you're having a bonza weekend!
mrs ozzie and i have really enjoyed a very pleasant time with friends and now are spending a bit of quiet time with a nice espresso.
so time to take a "break" and let's share some time reminiscing together about "the old days".
3 and 8, sort of. I threw them away after a while. At first I felt guilty about that. But when I knew I was leaving, I didn't care. I did give my books to my sister, but the mags I tossed.
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this one seems to amount to $93,119,000.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=46234&site=3
Wasn't JPMorgan one of the companies involved in the Enron scam? Or am I confusing them with someone else?
i will not be near a computer for awhile so am posting this a week early.
i know jgnat will keep it going with her wonderful postings as well as everyone el'se comments.
i am looking forward to reading what everyone has to say when i get near a computer.. comments you will not hear at the 2-16-03 wt study.
Ooo...goals...sounds interesting. I enjoyed your comments, as always.
how do you difine spirituality now you are no longer a jw?
are you still a spiritual person and if so in what way?.
or are you totally unspiritual by your definition of what it means to be such?.
How do you difine spirituality now you are no longer a JW?
I don't really define it. I think it's different for everyone. There's an obvious difference between being spiritual and being religious. I think spiritual has more to do with being in tune with nature, your environment, and the people around you. By that "definition," I have always been spiritual.
Are you still a spiritual person and if so in what way?
I haven't changed, other than the fact that I am unsure whether or not there is a God. My inner self is still the same.
Or are you totally unspiritual by your definition of what it means to be such?
See above.
How do you veiw people who are very spiritual?I think spirituality is great. Very "religious" is a different story. I don't like it when people try to push their religion on others. Funny that.
Edited by - Wolfgirl on 6 February 2003 8:30:3
raised in a religion that preached a massive, theocratic holocaust for the majority of mankind can leave you with more than a few mental and emotional scars.
i remember being terrified on new years eve in 1986 (i was 9 yrs old) because of all the talk that that year was the "international year of peace.
" i was conditioned to look at world events as being a sign that the end is near, sound familiar?
My parents kept me out of school (I'm one of those autumn birthdays) when I was almost 5 (the school was going to let me in even though I was 4) because they said, 'Armageddon will come before that. Why bother?' *ahem* My 10-year high school reunion was this past summer.
I remember feeling certain that the end was going to come in 1986 because of the International Year of Peace. As I got older, I collected newspaper articles that I thought were relevant to the great tribulation/Armageddon.
I was DF'd in January 2001. When the WTC attacks happened, I panicked. I thought, "Oh my god! They were right." It didn't help that my mum (still a JW) chose to ring me at 3 in the morning (I was living in Hong Kong, she in the US) because of it, telling me that the end was here.
It's taken a lot to deprogram myself, and every once in a while, I still get a little twinge of doubt when I see a news report or some such. *sigh*
i want to thank all those that helped and encouraged me in my hard times!..hubby passed away from his cancer this morning.
i am so sad my heart is broken.
we decided to go ahead and have a memorial for him this weekend at the kingdom hall he went to.
(((((GG))))) I'm very sorry.